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It is highly probable, too, that it offers a large collection of pretty faces; for even in the few hours that I spent at Tarascon I discovered symptoms of the purity of feature for which the women of the pays d'Arles are renowned.
This personage is a little round woman, still plumply pleasing although she is rising sixty, who is arrayed always with an exquisite neatness in the dress the sober black-and-white of the elder women, not the gay colours worn by the young girls of the Pays d'Arles; and although shortness and plumpness are at odds with majesty of deportment she has, at least, the peremptory manner of one long accustomed to command.
Fournier's Le Royaume d'Arles et de Vienne gives the best modern account of Edward's relations to the Middle Kingdom. It is unlikely that Edward hoped for serious results from schemes so incoherent and backed with such slender resources.
By my obviously sincere admiration of the Château and its surroundings, and by a discreet word or two implying a more personal admiration a tribute which no woman of the Pays d'Arles ever is too old to accept graciously I was so fortunate as to win Misè Fougueiroun's favour at the outset; a fact of which I was apprised on the evening of my arrival it was at dinner, and the housekeeper herself had brought in a bottle of precious Châteauneuf-du-Pape by the cordiality with which she joined forces with the Vidame in reprobating my belated coming to the Château.
Before a statue of Venus more or less of the Praxitelean type a more earthly sister of those which have been named the "Townley Venus" and the "Vénus d'Arles" myriads of Loves sport, kissing, fondling, leaping, flying, playing rhythmic games, some of them shooting arrows at the opposing faction, to which challenge merry answer is made with the flinging of apples.
Those jaunts of a Sunday out to Les Baux, for instance, with paper lanterns and Bengal fire and a fellow spouting O blanche Venus d'Arles they're well enough, and compare favourably with our Bank Holidays and Sunday League picnics, but ... but that's nothing to do with my tale after all.... So he drove on, and by the time we got to Rangon's house Carroll had learned the greater part of Magali....
In August, 1886, a venture was made at Orange the like of which rarely has been made in France in modern times: a new French play demanding positive and strong recognition, the magnificent "Empereur d'Arles," by the Avignon poet Alexis Mouzin, was given its first presentation in the Orange theatre in the provinces instead of being first produced on the Paris stage.
It is highly probable too that it offers a large collection of pretty faces; for even in the few hours that I spent at Tarascon I discovered symptoms of the purity of feature for which the women of the pays d'Arles are renowned.
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